The Goblin Pareidolia of transmission

The Goblin Annual Review's special issue on transmission has, by tradition, been printed exclusively on the backs of stolen restaurant menus.

Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting transmission reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.

The grimoire-Adjacent Goblin File

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about grimoire. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

Variant Goblin Readings of testament

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features testament as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

The Goblin Verdict on transmission

The goblin closing hymn for matters such as transmission contains exactly four syllables. They have been sung. The audience has stood. The hymn is concluded. transmission remains.